This Christmas, men in red coats will deliver death.

Help us expose the cruel slaughter behind the celebrations – and end it.

Christmas is meant to be a time of love, laughter and family gatherings. But not all festive traditions are cheerful.

As children celebrate their presents from Santa Claus, animals are running for their lives from red-coated hunters. As we gather with our loved ones, packs of baying hounds crash through the countryside. A terrified mother fox, deer or hare becomes separated from her offspring: within seconds her family is brutally torn apart.

Stand up for animals and stop illegal hunting

Most people think blood sports no longer stain Britain. But our magnificent deer, beautiful foxes and spirited hares continue to be killed for the thrill of the chase.

Hunters use the traditional Boxing Day Hunt to convince the public that their hounds only follow artificial trails. But it’s a cynical smokescreen. On every other day of the festive season, the slaughter continues – with no evidence of trails being laid in 97% of ‘trail hunts’ surveyed by hunt monitors. Meanwhile, the threat of the hunting ban being repealed is ever-present.

As a member, you’ll help us expose the illegal activities that make a mockery of the hunting ban – and work tirelessly to protect our wildlife for Christmases to come.

BENEFITS OF LEAGUE MEMBERSHIP

When you join, you’ll get VIP access to our wildlife sanctuary in Exmoor National Park, and a personal tour; a personal membership card and exclusive pin badge; regular campaign updates, including our supporter magazine, Annual Review and exclusive member reports; and an invitation to our Annual General Meeting.

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Positive measures to protect animals have been announced by the government today. The Animal Welfare Bill 2018 includes an increase in sentencing for animal abuse from a maximum of six months jail to five years, and also states that animal sentience must be recognised in any future laws.

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As a team, we share the same passion – to stop animal cruelty in the name of sport. We are a tight knit team and we work hard within a fun, relaxed environment. We also offer something many employers don’t – an office full of friendly dogs!

Hunting was banned in England and Wales in 2004, but the law has never been properly enforced, and attempts to weaken or repeal it continue. The hunting law in Scotland is weak, and hunting is still legal in Northern Ireland.

Hurting and killing animals for ‘sport’ is one of the principal causes of animal cruelty in the UK: tens of millions suffer and die each year for ‘leisure’ activities. We’re here to protect those animals.

Bullfighting is perhaps the most well known spectator “sport” involving the killing of animals for entertainment. It has already been banned in most countries, but each year tens of thousands of bulls are maimed, tortured and killed for entertainment in Spain, Portugal, France, Colombia, Mexico, USA, Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru.

The hidden side of greyhound racing includes dogs kept for long periods in lonely kennels, painful injuries from racing and training, illness and neglect. Shockingly, thousands of surplus dogs die or disappear every year. The League believes dogs should not suffer or die for entertainment or for the profit of the dog racing industry.

The Hunting Act 2004 is the law which bans chasing wild mammals with dogs in England and Wales – this basically means that fox hunting, deer hunting, hare hunting, hare coursing and mink hunting are all illegal, as they all are cruel sports based on dogs chasing wild mammals.